strathspey@strathspey.org:29296

ron.mackey

Re: Moving out of the way. Was: Strathspey Setting

Jan. 25, 2002, 6:36 p.m. (Message 29296, in reply to message 29273)

> May I offer the opposite view?
> 
> I learned ECD in the mid-80s, from an Englishman, in Washington, D.C., and
> he did not teach such movement.  My husband learned ECD in the 70s from
> Barbara Harding (still teaching, in northern Virginia), who herself had
> learned from May Gadd, and Barbara does not teach that.  More recently, the
> noted British caller Colin Hume admonishes against such pronounced movement.
> We observe that practice becoming ever more common, including at Pinewoods;
> we refrain from doing it ourselves, seeing it as drawing attention away from
> the active dancers and as cluttering the clean line of the set.
 
> Pat

		Hi, Pat
			If one is dancing in a demonstration then fine guidelines need to 
be set but the big lesson is that in social dancing (as in any art) 
it is up to the person involved.   Surely there can be no rules for 
an individuals feeling for social behaviour?
	Once again, if you ask for a rule, you will get one.  Even if it is 
not strictly necessary.
Cheers,  Ron   :)

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